Bar-stitch attachment for sewing-machines.



m. 689,343. Patented Dec. l7, 190:. n. a. WOODWARD.

BAR STITCH ATTACHMENT FOB SEWING MACHINES.

(Application filed Apr. 19, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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RUSSEL GREEN IVOODWARD, OF WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE UNION SPECIAL SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BAR-STITCH ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,343, dated December 17, 1901. Application filed April 19, 1898. Serial No. 678,124. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: needles 1 2, but in some instances would miss Be it known that I, RUSSEL GREEN WOD- them altogether and in others would be WARD, acitizen of the UnitedlStates, residing sewed through by one of them, while in other at Waukegan, in the county of Lake, State of instances by reason of the failure to prop 5 Illinois, have invented certain new and useful erly guide this cord stitcheswould be skipped. 5 5 Improvements in Sewing-Machinesjof which To avoid this is the object of my invention, the following is a description, reference beandI therefore provide adjacent to the outer ing had to the accompanying drawings, and needle 1 and preferably on the presser-foot to the figures of reference marked thereon. a vertical lip or guide 9, against which the My invention relates to an improvement in cord-carrier 7 carries the cord 7 and holds 69 sewing-machines, and especially to what is the sametaut, so that it lies at the proper called a bar-stitch machine for applying a angle between the two needles 1 2, neither of festooned and taped edging to fabrics. which will engage the cord,- but will make The object of the invention is to provide an stitches or deposit loops upon opposite sides attachment for such machines whereby all of it. danger of skipping stitches is avoided and By referring to Fig. 2 of the drawings it will the cord making up the edging is kept out of be seen that the front end or operative portion; 1 the path of the needle and prevented from of the guide 9 is arranged in advance of the being sewed through and through. needles relative to the front of the machine so The invention consists in providinga guide and between said needles and the path in or stop for the cord, which is looped to form which the active or cord-carrying end of the the bars between which the tape is inserted, cord-carrier7 is caused to move or reciprocate. so that the said cord will always pass between Said Fig. 2 also shows by a heavy line or dot a pair of loops made by the two needles which 10 a groove in the side of the guide 9 adjacent 2 5 finish the edge of the fabric proper. the needle 1, the same being provided for the The invention is illustrated in the accompassage of said needle to avoid breaking the panying drawings, in which-=- latter should it become deflected.

Figure 1 is a view of a portion of a machine Having thus described my invention, what to which the invention is applied. Fig. 2 is I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 30 aview of the presser-foot and guide detached. Patent, is- Fig. 3 is a view of the work done on this ma- 1; In a sewing-machine which includes-a chine. plurality of needles, a cord-carrying device,

In the drawings the feed, looper mechanmeans for actuating the same, and a guide for ism, and certain other parts are of the wellthe cord so disposed relative to the needles 35 known Union Special type. The needles and said device that the cord will be certainly are shown at 1'2 3 and two thread-carrying directed between a pair of the needles; sub fingers at 4 5, the parts 1, 2, 4, and 5 operatstantially as described. I ing as in the patent to Munsing of May 25, 2. In a sewing-machine including mechan- 1897, N 0. 583,387. The needle 3 is set some ism for depositing rows of loops upon oppo- 4o distance from and back of the other two, and site sides of the line of feed, a cord-carrying 0 two other levers 6 and 7, carrying cord 6 and device, means for actuating the same and a 7, are provided, as illustrated. The cord guide for the cord so disposed relative to the 7 is carried forward and its loop is caught mechanism which deposits the rows of loops between a pair of loops or stitches formed by upon opposite sides of the seam that the cord 45 needles 1 2 and is then carried back and with will be to a certainty directed across the line cord 6 is caught by stitches made by needle of feed and deposited between a pair of loops; 3, the cord 7 forming bars, over and under substantially as described. which alternately passes a tape 8. 3. In a sewing-machine which includes a As heretofore constructed the cord 7 a plurality of needles, a cord-carrying device, 50 would not be accurately guided between the means for reciprocating the same across the line of feed, and a guide for the cord, the

operative portion of which is disposed in advance of the needles and between the latter and the path of movement of said device; 'sub stantially as described.

4. In a sewing-machine which includes a plurality of needles arranged transversely to the direction of feed, a cord-carrying device, means for reciprocating the same across the line of feed, and a guide for the cord, the 0perative portion of which is disposed in advance of the needles and between the latter and the path of movement of said device; substantially as described. 

